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> ID, might be an appropriate topic for a class in
> philosophy, but clearly doesn't fall within the realm
> of a science course.

I rather doubt the philosophers want to bother with ID either -- if it is going to be taught  it belongs in a comparative religion or perhaps sociology class but not a science class, because ID is not science.  This, however, will not satisfy the ID zealots because their desire is to fabricate a public impression that  ID and Evolution are equally valid and competing scientific theories -- that the issues are just simply those of fairness, open-mindedness, and balance.   This is the crux of the debate over the teaching of ID (as distinct from the validity or not of its claims) -- a debate which would disappear were it not for the insistence by ID's proponents that it be taught in science classes.


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